Community mental health services: a way forward to rehabilitate chronic mentally ill client.

Schizophrenia and other mental illnesses produce devastating effects on a clients\u27 personal and psychosocial wellbeing. Besides the sufferer, it has irrevocable impacts on the lives of their loved ones. With advancement in the treatment modalities, researches have proven that hospital based care and psychotropic drugs are not the sole solution in managing the client symptoms. Deinstitutionalization is the paradigm shift from hospital based to community based care model that allows client/s to spend rest of their lives in the community setting. A well-structured community care based programme that focuses on psychosocial interventions has significant contribution in treatment and rehabilitation of client/s. This article is aimed to provide the evidence of the effective use of community mental health care for management and prevention of relapse of a client with chronic schizophrenia. The substantial evidence of rehabilitation is represented through this case study of a chronic schizophrenic client who received these psychosocial interventions in his own community setting

Sexual harassment at work place: are you safe?

In today\u27s world women are increasingly participating in the realm of work force, yet they are facing many obstacles in their way. Sexual harassment is one of those obstacles. Sexual harassment at work place is prevalent in every society. It could happen to anyone but women are the targeted victims. Sexual harassment is considered as a traumatic event and the victim may end up in having physical and mental sufferings that hinders a person to work effectively. At an organisational level this may result in decrease work effectiveness, decreased work productivity, high absenteeism, high turnover, and low staff morale. Hence there is a need that, organisations and government should look seriously into this matter. Proper education and training programs should be developed to deal with these issues. The goal must be both to deal with sexual harassment incidents effectively and to prevent the occurrence of future incidents

Compliance to antipsychotic medication: a challenge for client, family and health care providers.

Compliance with anti-psychotic medications plays a significant role in managing clients with schizophrenia. It not only helps in controlling the symptoms, but also decreases the risk of relapses and ultimately improves quality of life (QoL) for the clients. However, compliance with anti-psychotic medication remains a challenge for the client, family and healthcare providers. Identification of these associated factors is vital to make appropriate plan to enhance medication compliance. In this paper, various factors are highlighted that are associated with medication compliance in clients with schizophrenia

THE ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AND PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT IN PROMOTING ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR

This paper examined the impact organizational commitment and perceived organizational support in promoting organizational citizenship behavior of teacher in private sector universities of Pakistan. The data were collected from 140 teachers working with private sector universities in Pakistan. Multiple methods in the form of regression analysis were used to check the hypothesis. The consequences of the study indicate that organizational citizenship behavior is a factor that fairly depends upon organizational commitment and also on perceived organizational support; furthermore, perceived organizational support and organizational commitment have considerable affirmative impact means it positively influence the organizational citizenship behavior of teaches working in private universities of Pakistan. This study is primarily driven tentatively by the social exchange theory that deliberately lends support to this paper for explaining the idea of perceived organizational support (POS), the norm of reciprocity, and also organizational support theory. This article adds value to the restricted literature regarding the psychological concept that causes the creation of organizational citizenship behavior through the perceptions of organizational support theory concept (Eisenberger et al., 2001; Eisenberger, et al., 1986) and the social exchange theory (Blau, 1964).The paper suggests that if private sector universities in Pakistan desire to cultivate organizational citizenship behavior among its teachers then they must chalk out and implement such strategies that increase employee commitment as well as perceived organizational support (POS)

CASE REPORT SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT WORK PLACE: ARE YOU SAFE?

In today's world women are increasingly participating in the realm of work force, yet they are facing many obstacles in their way. Sexual harassment is one of those obstacles. Sexual harassment at work place is prevalent in every society. It could happen to anyone but women are the targeted victims. Sexual harassment is considered as a traumatic event and the victim may end up in having physical and mental sufferings that hinders a person to work effectively. At an organisational level this may result in decrease work effectiveness, decreased work productivity, high absenteeism, high turnover, and low staff morale. Hence there is a need that, organisations and government should look seriously into this matter. Proper education and training programs should be developed to deal with these issues. The goal must be both to deal with sexual harassment incidents effectively and to prevent the occurrence of future incidents

Unified Computational Analysis of Conventional Numerical Methods for Time Dependant Heat Equation

The objective of this paper is to perform a unified error and computation time analysis of conventional numerical methods for solving the heat equation. The numerical techniques employed include Forward Difference, Backward Difference, Crank Nicolson, Alternate Directions Scheme, and DuFort-Frankel methods for the time-dependent heat equation. The heat equation has been implemented to 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D problems, both for the Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions. On basis of experimental results, theoretical justifications have been provided regarding the performance of each method

Computationally efficient GPU based NS solver for two dimensional high-speed inviscid and viscous compressible flows

In this study, we proposed a novel GPU-based solution for modelling two-dimensional inviscid and viscous compressible supersonic/hypersonic flows. Texture and surface pointers are used to access GPU memory locations. For effective and efficient use of surface pointers, we grouped multiple 2D arrays referenced and indexed by a single 3D surface pointer. To enable the proposed solver for double-precision calculations, two consecutive 32-bit memory locations were grouped to maintain the efficiency of surface pointers while taking advantage/accuracy of 64-bit calculations. Resolving data and computation dependencies for parallel applications is another complex task that is the focus of this study. Computation dependencies have been solved by using multiple mutually synchronized GPU kernels and executing them sequentially using the GPU default stream to ensure that all relevant data is available to the threads or computed before they actually use it. Consequently, there is no intra-core data dependency in our proposed approach, while inter-core data dependency is successfully solved by stringing multiple kernels together. Using NVIDIA GTX 660 GPUs, we achieved 20x speedup compared to traditional Core i5[Formula: see text] computers. This speedup is the result of the Surface Pointer's GPU capabilities for double precision computations. The simulation results are also consistent with the experimental and numerical results of this study

Synthesis, characterization, in silico and in vitro studies of novel glycoconjugates as potential antibacterial, antifungal, and antileishmanial agents

In the present work, several new glycoconjugates (8a–e) were generated from glycopyranosyl-α-trichloroacetimidates (sugar-OTCA) as glycosyl donors and dimethyl-l-tartrate as an aglycone acceptor in good to excellent yields. In the synthetic protocol, various monosaccharides were transformed into pentaacetylated derivatives and then into glycopyranosyl-α-trichloroacetimidates. Afterward, the sugar-OTCA was reacted with dimethyl-l-tartrate using Schmidt’s trichloroacetimidate protocol to give the desired products. The newly synthesized glycoconjugates were characterized by FT-IR, 1H, and 13C-NMR spectroscopic analytical methods. All the target compounds (8a–e) were tested in vitro against various strains of bacteria and fungi at different concentrations. The results revealed that the target compounds had encouraging antibacterial and antifungal potential. The antileishmanial activity of the target compounds against Leishmania tropica promastigotes was also investigated. The in vitro results were further supported by the in silico docking study that indicated minimum values of the docking scores and binding energies for the resulting complexes obtained by the favorable interactions between the target compounds (8a–e) and the selected strains of bacteria and fungi. The docking results proposed promising antibacterial and antifungal activities of the target compounds (8a–e) against the selected bacterial and fungal species